CP Escapes Death As Sucide Bombers Hit Taraba State.

A round of suicide bomb attacks on Monday led to the destruction of a portion of the Taraba State Ministry of Finance in the state capital, Jalingo, and consumed valuable documents and property.
The News Agency of Nigeria quotes the spokesman for the state police command, Ibiang Mbasike, as saying that the blast affected a large part of the building and a nearby market.
The bombs exploded at about 8.45a.m when workers were resuming for work after the weekend break.
The blasts were triggered by two suicide bombers riding motorcycles and were apparently targeted at the Commissioner of Police, Taraba State Command, Mamman Sule, as he made his way to his office.
There was no information about the state of the CP but some reports said he escaped unhurt. However, three police officers and the two suspected suicide bombers were among those killed while a dozen others were injured.
One of the explosives hit the rider leading the police commissioner’s convoy.
The police headquarters in Taraba is 40 metres away from the main entrance to the finance ministry. The ministry’s premises forms part of the entrance into the building leading to the police commissioner’s office.
“The Police Commissioner usually has to go through the Ministry of Finance to enter his office.
“He was passing by that usual route when the explosives were thrown. So the Police Commissioner’s convoy was clearly the target,” a top police source, who preferred anonymity, told NAN.